# MOO and VRML

Nathan J Kurz (nate@tripod.tripod.com)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:59:36 PST

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    Nick says:
    > If anyone might be interested in collaborating with me to write a MOO/VRML
    > environment from scratch, please e-mail paunovic@uiuc.edu
    > It would of course be freeware, so you would get no profit.. just the
    > experience :)
    >
    > /Nick, ArchWiz STAR WARS MOO (opening August 1996! )
    > http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~paunovic/
    > e-mail: paunovic@uiuc.edu

    We've been thinking a lot about VRML/MOO things, along with some other
    WWW/MOO interactions.  Our current thought is to build a MOO/httpd
    hybrid: change the flat pages of the web into rooms, change a MOO to
    deal with HTTP connections.  The MOO serves HTML, built out of the
    database for each connection.  The HTML then contains references to
    the VRML, so that the the MOO never contains the VRML, just the
    references.

    Doing it our way, the code could probably be self contained enough to
    be just another add-on to LambdaMOO -- a compile-time option like
    NS_BSD/NP_TCP.  But the VRML would be essentially static, missing a
    lot of the fun.  Building a MOO that serves VRML native is appealing.
    Maybe the ground up rewrite would be worth it.

    I'd love continue this thread if anyone else is interested.  You can
    check out 'http://trickle.tripod.com' to see our first attempt at a
    MOO in HTML.  No VRML, but a working demo of an HTTP-MOO interface.

    (Note that we are commercial, but lightweights who would probably put
    our efforts into a MOO/VRML freeware project if it was going the same
    general direction as we were.)

    nate@tripod.com
    http://www.tripod.com